DECEMBER
DECEMBER
What is the greatest bliss
That the tongue o’ man can name?
’Tis to woo a bonnie lassie
When the kye comes hame!
“When the Kye Comes Hame,” st. 2,—James Hogg.
James Hogg, a famous Scotch pastoral poet, was born in Ettrick, December 1, 1770, and died at Eltrive Lake, November 21, 1835. He wrote: “Poems and Songs,” “The Mountain Bard,” “Scottish Pastorals,” and “The Queen’s Wake,” his most famous work.
In the soul of Keats, if ever in a human soul at all, there was a portion of the real poetic essence—the real faculty divine.... His most obvious characteristic, I repeat, is the universality of his sensuousness. And this it is, added to his exquisite mastery in language and verse, that makes it such a luxury to read him.
“Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats,”—David Masson.